I'm back with another look at a random episode of the late 90's/ Early 2000's Disney Channel Original series, "So Weird". This time we are taking a dip with season 3. Season 3 is the final season of the series. The main character, Fi, decides to traveling , as the actress ,Cara DeLizia, decided to leave the series. They replaced her with a family friend, Annie, Alexz Johnson) joining instead. (Didn't even do the Ben 10 route, of making Annie a cousin) Season 3 also was noted for toning the show down from it's first two seasons.
The episode we look at today is season 3, episode 6 called "Banglebye"
The episode has Molly, Fi and Jack's mom, along with Jack, Clu, Carey, Irene, and Ned are in a town as Molly is speaking to a school, about music stuff , I guess. Annie notices the kids at the middle school are seemingly acting very nice and respectful- unlike kids. Jack, Clu, and Carey notice later that the kids in the town aren't very acting like kids. Some boys let Clu score a free goal in soccer. The place where group is staying, the owner's son , Kenny is playing a video game called Bangle Bye (roll credits!) The game seems to be powerful, when Clu and Jack play it , the next morning they are wearing shirts with ties, and acting like what I think yuppies acted like.
Is he drinking both orange juice and tea? / Copyright Disney
This show is good at making it feel very creepy. It's also funny. It's kind of noticeable how much the episode like even about 10 minutes in has very much lacked having Annie. But she does come up to the plot when Annie finds a remote that controls a plane and decides to fly it. It lands in the yard of the neighbors. The man and woman that Clue and Jack saw earlier. The man isn't very happy that it did, because he's worried about his wife. (Gee, I wonder who is behind the video game?)
Get out of here , Dennis, Mr. Wilson is ticked! / Copyright Disney
Annie begins to suspect that the video game is what made Clu and Jack. She finds a store with Carey that's selling the video game. The guy at the store, the same guy from before, is adamite that she and Carey take a game, it's even free. (not even sure how he's supposed to make money, bros) She does get tempted and it cuts to the next day, and Annie seems to be acting differently, but she is still normal and talking to the angry man from the day before.
I brought you cookies to kill the garden with/ Copyright Disney
She talks to the woman who remarks that children kept running her garden, then they just stopped. The ends up visiting the store where the game was being sold, which wasn't locked, hmm anyway, she and Carey see the man making the video game by adding hypnotism, He easily gives the reason why he made this game, because he wants kids to be well behaved. He blames his wife's heart attack on children. He used to be a hypnotist.
Oh no! I've been caught making pirated copies of Mariah Carey's Glitter Album/ Copyright Disney
I like here how the man's intentions - while not the right idea, weren't evil, but misplaced. He wanted his wife to be comfortable. He seems to know it was wrong, and doesn't even really go after Annie and Carrey to force them to be hypnotized. Annie talks to him and tries convince but says he can't un do it. Until, Carey says try to make a game 2. (sequel fun)
Man makes games faster than you can even get them now. His new game works and undoes the hypnotism. Jack and Clu are back to normal. The other kids are back to normal again, and the woman's garden is back to being destroyed. The woman seems to be back to moving around and gardening.
Yeah, it's a very light toned episode. It still is kind of unsettling how Clu and Jack act, but it doesn't feel like anyone was in any danger, and the person who was behind it wasn't really a nefarious dark evil. It's not a bad episode, it's light, and straight forward though. It is lacking some bite that could truly have made it it feel more tense and a bit scary. I do like how they did kind of do something to make one think that Annie did play the game and got all hypnotized, and didn't drag it out too long to find out what happened.
It's probably a weaker installment if you compare to an episode from seasons 1 or 2, but it's not bad. There's some fun here.
That's it for now, tune in next time when we start a store and start giving away Nintendo DS's .
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